St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
A TERRIBLE BATTLE.
One of the Gamest Prize Fights
ON Record Occurs Near Kanka-

AGGs
KANKAKEE, Ill.,, Sept. 26.-One of the
gamest prize fights ever witnessed in
Illinois occurred near here early yester-.
day morning. Three hundred young
men waded through the wet weeds near
the town and entered an old shanty
close beside the railroad track. Once
inside the shanty five lamps were
lighted, the doors securely locked, and
the master of ceremonies announced
that Billy Watson, of Chicago, and Tom
Duffy, of Ohio, were to fight to finish
for $3.50 side and the entire gate re-
ceipts, which amounted to nearly $500
more. Duffy, who is twenty-three
years old, stripped at 145 pounds. Wat
son is twenty-five years old and weighs
13S pounds. Shortly after 5 o'clock both
men stepped into the middle of the ring
for an opening Duffy landed lightly on
Watson's stomach and in return re-
ceived left-hander on the jowl. Fierce
fighting followed, and the round
ended in clinch. Both men were
cautious in the second round and
the fighting, which was weak, was done
at long range. In the third round Duffy
got crack on the nose that started the
claret. First blood was claimed for
Watson and allowed. Cautious fighting
followed until the seventh round, when
Duffy caught an upper cut from Wat
sons right that lifted him Off his feet
and laid him against the ropes. He re-
covered in fine shape, however, and sent
Watson to his knees with blow under
the right ear. When Duffy went to his
corner after the round, Murphy, his sec
Ond, washed the blood from his face and
sent him up in clean shape. Weak
fighting followed until the twelfth
round, when Duffy forced Watson to
his corner, where he dealt him two
heavy blows on the nose. Watson re-
piled with swinging right-hander
which split Duffy'S lip and sent stream
of blood running down his neck and
bosom. When the men came up in the
thirteenth round, they presented bat
tered appearance. Duffy's breast and
arms were
SMEARED WITH BLOOD,
and his mouth looked as though it ran
from ear to ear. Watson was bleeding
freely too, but he appeared to have
better wind. The betting was now in
favor of Watson, but the friends of the
Ohio lad were not slow in covering all
good odds. In the thirteenth round
Duffy broke small bone in his right
wrist in attempting to reach WatSOn's
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spite the pain his self-inficted injury
gave him. In the fifteenth round Wat
son broke Dutfy's nose with swinging
left handler and followed it up with a
rafting blow on the neck. For a mo-
ment the Ohio boy wavered, but the
calling of time gave him a chance to-
get his wind. Terrific smuggling fol-
lowed until the twentieth round, Duffy
directing his attention to his opponents
bellows and Watson dealing blow after
blow upon the Ohioans broken nose.7
Both men were covered with, each
others blood, and the floor was be-
spattered with crimson spots. AZ one
time the faces of the game fighters were
completely plastered with gore, and,
Duffy'S upper lip, which had been split
nearly to his broken horn, hung upon
his chin. AS it was now after O'Clock
the lamps were eXtinguiShed, the doors
thrown open, and the fight continued by
daylight. Duffy's terrible body blows.
in the twentieth, twenty-frst and TWEEN
ty-second round had a demOralizing
effect On Watson, who, up to this time,
had escaped much Disagreement. He
began to blow in an ominous manner,
and great Jumps and welts appeared on
his breast. The terrific work of the
Ohioan was loudly cheered, and even
money was offered and covered that he
would yet knock out the Chicagoan. In
the twenty-fourth round Watson sent
his left against Duffy's right eye, and
moment later it was sound asleep. The
OhiOan's other eye began to curl up.
too, but his seconds managed to
straighten it out in time for the next
round. Both men separated for wind
in the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth,
twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth
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who had mended his bellows, renewed
his attack on Watson's ribs. The fight
ing
WAS VERY FIERCE
in this round, Watson's blows in the
Ohioan'S face having the effect of sending
blood around the ring in sprays. Wat
son was now bleeding at the mouth as a
result of the trip-hammer tattoo which
Duffy had been beating on his ribs, and
his legs were not as steady as his sec
onds would like to have seen them. In
the thirty first round Watson smashed
Duffy in the mouth with the left and
caught hard one on the body in re-.
turn. mitigating followed. Finally
both men clinched to escape punish
| ment. Both men were bleeding so
freely that it was impossible for their
seconds to send them up clean. Duffv'S
face was mangled in a most horrible
manner. One eye was completely
closed, the other was nearly tight, and
the blood from his broken nose and
cracked lip ran in streams to the floor.
There were huge Jumps On his cheeks,
and his breast above the ribs was LAGER
ated from the seams on Watson's gloves.
The thirty-frst, thirty-second, thirty
third, thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and
thirtysiXth rounds were of the hammer
and tongs order, each man try
ing to get in knockout
blow. Watson came near going down
three times in these rounds under the
catapult blows of the Buckeye boy. but
managed to pull himself together before
his opponent could follow up his advan-
tage. The broken nose came in for
more punishment during these rounds,
and the Chicago boy reached for and
caught Duffy's only clean eye. In the
thlrty-seyenth round Duffy sent Watson
to the ropes with ringing left-hander,
but caught a solid blow in the mouth in
return. A clinch followed and continued
until time was called. The spectators
declared that they had seen enough and
begged the referee to call the tight a
draw. 1t was now broad daylight and
people were stirring out of DOORS. The
seconds, however, wanted to see the
tight out to finish, and sent their men
up for the thirty-eighth round. Both
were too weak to do any effective work.
and for five rounds scarcely ssolid blow
was struck. In the forty-fourth round
the men were so clearly exhausted that
the referee called the fight draw. The
contest lasted two hours and fourteen
minutes. Both pugilists were so badly
punished that it Will be several DAYS
before they will feel like ordinary NOR
tails. =
They Will Fight. :, :;
Special to the Globe.
BOSTON, Sept. 26.-The fight between